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7 Internet Law Predictions for 2012

Internet Lawyer — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:05:29 +0000

1. Hollywood Retreats The entertainment industry thought it had bought enough politicians, plus foolish support by GoDaddy (now retracted), to ram through SOPA/PIPA legislation. Pretending to be about property rights, this horrible legislation would cripple ecommerce while allowing politicians in power to crush free speech online. Now that Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. are fighting back, [...]

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Fox Columnist Fired for Promoting Wolverine Piracy

Internet Lawyer — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:42:40 +0000

Fox News Corp. isn’t amused that its freelance columnist, Roger Friedman, has watched a pirated version of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine and apparently promoted such piracy in a column he posted on Fox News’ website. According to Nikki Finke, Friedman has apparently been canned and his column deleted. This just reinforces the futility [...]

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Copyright Infringement Damages – Are They Constitutional?

Internet Lawyer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:12:29 +0000

In an unusual copyright infringement case, a defendant (Denise Barker) admits that she engaged in downloading copyrighted materials using Kazaa’s peer-to-peer (P2P) network. What makes this case unique is that the defendant is challenging the constitutionality of the damages music companies are trying to extract from her in the lawsuit. As I’ve discussed in this [...]

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OiNK Music Piracy Site Shut Down

Internet Lawyer — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:48:22 +0000

His Amsterdam servers seized, a 24-year-old Englishman was arrested for operating the music piracy website OiNK. This is just the latest example of international cooperation between law enforcement authorities to crack down on pirate sites. For now, that’s like trying to empty the ocean using a bucket with a hole in it. All it does [...]

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Music Piracy – Even the Experts Get it Wrong

Internet Lawyer — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:24:07 +0000

Andy Greenberg has an article in Forbes that cites intellectual property (IP) experts whining about the peer-to-peer (p2p) piracy of Radiohead’s latest album. Because Radiohead let fans name their own price, but pirates still downloaded the music on bittorrent instead, the mistaken assumption is that the piracy hurt the distribution model used by Radiohead. You [...]

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Radiohead – Pay What You Want For Their New Album

Internet Lawyer — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:11:11 +0000

Beginning October 10th, you can download Radiohead’s latest album (“In Rainbows”) and pay what you want for it. The U.K. band is testing the waters in the right direction for breaking the stranglehold the record labels have on music distribution. Consider this a thumb in the eye of RIAA and the entertainment industry music piracy [...]

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Copyright Infringement – Will DMCA Coupon Case Be Dismissed?

Internet Lawyer — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:28:36 +0000

John Stottlemire has just struck back in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) infringement case filed against him by Coupons, Inc. (coupons.com). Stottlemire is seeking dismissal of the case for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted or summary judgment in the alternative. He’s also seeking Rule 11 sanctions against the [...]

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Media Defender – Anti-Piracy Group Caught Setting Up Fake Video Download Site

Internet Lawyer — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:56:29 +0000

According to TorrentFreak, Media Defender set up a fake video download site to entrap BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer (P2P) users as part of MediaDefender’s anti-piracy efforts. The report claims that internal Media Defender e-mails that have become public provide the details of the scheme to have people upload copyrighted content to miivi.com and then nail [...]

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Porn Industry Joins Hollywood in Attacking BitTorrent

Internet Lawyer — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:00:44 +0000

Tired of losing four percent of their profits to piracy, porn video makers are plotting legal attacks against BitTorrent for copyright infringement. This puts pornographers in the same bed as MPAA and RIAA. Fitting but funny when you consider how many adult films have ripped their titles and loosely borrowed their ‘plots’ from mainstream PG [...]

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DMCA Infringement By Deleting Files On Your Computer?

Internet Lawyer — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:16:36 +0000

Here’s yet another example of why room temperature IQ politicians have no business prostituting themselves for campaign contributions from RIAA, MPAA, and others in the entertainment industry. An Internet entrepreneur, John Stottlemire, found a way to delete certain files and registry keys on one’s computer so that multiple copies of coupons could be printed from [...]

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Hollywood Attacks Web Video Pirates

Internet Lawyer — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:23:10 +0000

Copying RIAA’s tactics in the music industry, the MPAA has filed a lawsuit to stop online video piracy. Like RIAA, the MPAA is doomed to fail. Copyright laws are old, obsolete, and can’t keep pace with modern technology. However, be sure to protect your business and your personal assets by not putting yourself in a [...]

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Copyright Alliance – Beware of it

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:09:24 +0000

Following up on what I wrote about the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007…a bill designed to make it easy for virtually anyone to be convicted of copyright infringement, or even attempted infringement, by shifting the burden from the accuser to you. The big money is lining up behind the bill with the formation of [...]

Amazon Competes With Apple iTunes – Sells DRM-Free Song MP3s

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:10:36 +0000

Amazon.com has announced that it is taking on Apple iTunes by selling mp3s without the digital rights management (DRM) designed to prevent you from transferring mp3s freely between devices. Kudos to Amazon for acknowledging what consumers want and giving it to them. Apple is too much in bed with RIAA on copyright infringement issues to [...]

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Copyright Thought Crime and the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007

Internet Lawyer — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:09:59 +0000

The Bush administration is supporting a new intellectual property (IP) law that should be opposed by any sane individual. Of course, that excludes most politicians who are lining their pockets with money from the entertainment industry. What is going on? The White House is supporting the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007…a horrendous bill that [...]

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Internet Lawyer — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:16:21 +0000

If you don’t know what these numbers mean, Google them. If you do know what these numbers mean and object to them being posted, see the First Amendment. Hint: It trumps the DMCA. If you want to know why the numbers were posted, check out this prior blog post. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 [...]

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Congress Debates Proposed Anti-Spyware Bill

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:27:21 +0000

The Spy Act (Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass) is being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives. How will this affect your business? Hopefully not at all. But here’s the danger. If some form of this bill becomes law, Congress has a propensity to screw things up when it comes to the Internet because, [...]

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Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) Hits Small Webcasters

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:58:52 +0000

The CRB has dramatically hiked the royalty rates for licensed music broadcast on the Internet. If you’re using, or considering using, such music as part of your business, check out the new rates. Fortunately, there are independent music artists who can provide you with quality alternatives to this RIAA shakedown. Hat tip to Reuters and [...]

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Music Piracy: RIAA Ordered To Pay Attorney Fees

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:58:09 +0000

In a music piracy story that brings a smile to my lips, RIAA must pay the attorney fees of a woman it sued for copyright infringement. Remember, RIAA is funded by a bunch of music piracy hypocrites. They’ll sue you and I but give a free pass to their own. Hat tip to Ars Technica. [...]

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Copyright Infringement, Spin, and DMCA Protection For You

Internet Lawyer — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:01:21 +0000

Does Google’s New Toy Really Expect Anyone To Believe This? “We take copyright issues very seriously.” - YouTube spokesman. No. Just taking Viacom’s demand that 100,000 video clips be removed for infringement very seriously. Viacom has the deep pockets to take on Google in court. If you find your copyrighted work on YouTube, use the [...]

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Music Piracy: Companies Rocked In Anti-Piracy Battles

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:39:40 +0000

With no viable defense, Sony BMG Music just settled FTC claims that requires it to pay consumers up to $150 each for damages caused by anti- music piracy software its CDs installed on computers. In another case, a 16-year-old boy accused of music piracy when he was as young as 11, has just filed counter-claims [...]

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